Articles About Podcasting

Choosing the Right Podcasts For Your Classroom
This excerpt from Bard William’s book The Educator’s Podcast Guide provides teachers with 10 questions to consider when evaluating podcasts for use in the classroom.

Exploiting the Educational Potential of Podcasting
This article provides an overview of podcasting for teachers and administrators. The article identifies three areas (devising cross-curricular activities; providing alternative teaching approaches; and promoting and using personalized learning) where podcasting can be used to improve instruction. There is also a Podcast Directory link in the left column with some excellent podcast resources.

Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules For the Revolution
This guide is a tremendous resource for anyone involved in podcasting. The guide covers copyright and trademark issues related to podcasting, legal issues involved in distributing a podcast, resources on how to find “podsafe” content for podcasts, and great resource section.

Kindergartner’s Prove Podcasting Child’s Play
An interesting article about a school that is getting into podcasting, starting with the kids in kindergarten.

Using iPods in the Early Childhood Classroom
Suggestions for ways to incorporate iPods into the kindergarten classroom, and links to some good resources, especially the link to directions for how to take those books on tape cassettes and convert them to a digital file.

Podcast Rubric
This isn’t an article, per se, but rather a rubric for evaluating podcasts. This was created by a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout for students in an iPod class to use for self-evaluation and peer evaluation of podcasts. It could be easily modified to students at any grade level.

7 Things You Should Know About…Podcasting
This article provides a thorough overview of podcasting and talks about the implications of podcasting on teaching and learning. Although geared towards the higher education setting, the information is applicable to younger students as well.

Globalizing Education One Podcast At a Time
This article discusses how podcasting is influencing science education

Podcasts: Improving Quality and Accessibility
Audio, content and speaker presentation are all important aspects of a quality podcast. This article has many tips on how to improve the quality of podcasts.

“A is for Apple” on iPod
Vocabulary development is an essential part of learning to read. In Carrollton, TX, the schools are using iPods in kindergarten to help kids develop their vocabulary and phonemic awareness skills.